Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRINCE Edward is calling in top football teams to help set up a new-look Duke of Edinburgh award . |
| 2 | Admittedly , Bicknell began the current campaign sluggishly as he experimented with an abbreviated approach , then reverted to the full Monty in the B&H quarterfinal against Lancashire to help set up a notable victory . |
| 3 | After 18 months training with AA in Chicago , Mr Shiratori returned to Tokyo to help set up the new office . |
| 4 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 5 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 6 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 7 | Governor Bill Clinton appears to have sewn up the presidential nomination by winning a plurality in New York on Tuesday , but only after suffering further humiliation . |
| 8 | The first was that the market was too young to have built up a proper record of likely default rates , especially during a recession . |
| 9 | Makeshift Australian opener Mark Waugh , a scorer of two half centuries in the series , appeared to have set up a winning total when he hit 108 . |
| 10 | Lloyds Register of Shipping was to have set up a large administration centre next to Junction ( 16 ) Sixteen of the M-Four , but it 's chosen a site in Hampshire instead . |
| 11 | POSH gifts group Aspreys is thought to have lined up a late Christmas present for itself . |
| 12 | Ronni wondered , as she flung some T-shirts and things into a bag , if she ought to have put up a stronger fight against Guido . |
| 13 | Perhaps he was trying to butter up America and Britain , because the United Nations Security Council will soon be discussing tighter sanctions against Libya unless he hands over the people who are believed to have blown up an American airliner over Scotland in 1988 . |